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Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 08, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:47 AM
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Video,
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Nishant Shah is chair of 'Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)' track at DML2013. Here, he talks about shifts in citizen engagement in Indian politics and civics, and the underlying significance of these changes.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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The Rules of Engagement
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 29, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Digital Natives
Why the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Habits of Living: Being Human in a Networked Society
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 23, 2012
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filed under:
Habits of Living,
Digital Humanities
Recently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new habits of everyday life need to be re-thought and refigured to produce new accounts of what it means to be human, to be friends, and to be connected in our networked societies.
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RAW
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Habits of Living
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Digital Habits: How and Why We Tweet, Share and Like
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 23, 2012
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last modified
Oct 23, 2012 10:13 AM
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filed under:
Habits of Living,
Digital Humanities
There aren’t always rational explanations for the ways in which we behave on networks. While there are trend spotting sciences and pattern recognition methods which try to make sense of how and why we behave in these strange ways on networks, they generally fail to actually help us understand why we do the things that we do when we are connected.
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Habits of Living
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Who’s that Friend?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 23, 2012
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last modified
Nov 04, 2012 06:46 AM
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filed under:
Habits of Living,
Digital Humanities
If you are reading this, stand on your right foot and start hopping while waving your hands in the air and shouting, “I am crazy” at the top of your voice. If you don’t, your Facebook account will be compromised, your passwords will be automatically leaked, and somebody will use your credit card to smuggle ice across international waters.
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One. Zero.
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Information Technology,
Digital Natives
The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
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Digital Natives
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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last modified
Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
I woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
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Internet Governance
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What lurks beneath the Network
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 25, 2012
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
There is a series of buzzwords that have become a naturalised part of discussions around digital social media—participation, collaboration, peer-2-peer, mobilisation, etc. Especially in the post Arab Spring world (and our own home-grown Anna Hazare spectacles), there is this increasing belief in the innate possibilities of social media as providing ways by which the world as we know it shall change for the better. Young people are getting on to the streets and demanding their rights to the future.
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Internet Governance
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Internet Censorship: Anonymous Can’t be Just Harmful Hackers
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 13, 2012
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last modified
Aug 06, 2012 06:56 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship
If there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated government machinery has been trying to control and contain the burgeoning online spaces, only to be put in their place by the new-age tech-ninjas that have risen as the new heroes in our digital times.
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Internet Governance
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Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 24, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:51 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Book Review,
Digital Natives
Nishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in Routledge's Journal of Children and Media on July 18, 2012.
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Digital Natives
